These dotfiles are managed differently to most.
Why not just put your home directory under git management?
"Because there's just too much stuff, most I don't want managed by git"
Fair enough, thats why the core of this strategy is to "ignore everything except".
Checkout .gitignore and you'll see what I mean.
The advantages of this are that your home directory is under source control.
I have both Linux and MacOSX devices. To deal with differences, I use branches.
Master branch contains common configurations.
Use asdf for managing versions of stuff like ruby, elixir, haskell
To install, you need a little git trickery. Clone as a bare repository, then re-establish the remote connection.
To clone the master branch:
cd
git clone --bare https://github.com/ktec/dotfiles.git .git
git config core.bare false
git remote remove origin && git remote add -f origin git@github.com:ktec/dotfiles.git
To clone a specific branch:
cd
git clone -b arch --bare https://github.com/ktec/dotfiles.git .git
git config core.bare false
git remote remove origin && git remote add -f origin git@github.com:ktec/dotfiles.git
This works beautifully for me. Obviously if you want to do this yourself, you'll need to change things to suit your needs.
Some other stuff:
git clone https://github.com/gmarik/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
Then open vim and type :VundleInstall